Hello Noel, It would help to see some of the exact commands you tried, and the specific error messages you received. Could you try installing the package, copy some relevant lines from your command window, and paste them into an email for us to see? Andy Giesler University of Wisconsin-Madison From: koha-bounces@lists.katipo.co.nz [mailto:koha-bounces@lists.katipo.co.nz] On Behalf Of Noel Peter Kalonga Sent: Sunday, November 09, 2008 6:20 AM To: koha@lists.katipo.co.nz Subject: [Koha] installing packeges Hello friends, I seem not to get it right, I am struggling to intsall packeges on debian i don't know where am doing wrong. I logged to the system as root and be able to locate my files that i need to install but it is not letting me intall the packeges. It keeps on telling me that the programme can not locate the files but am able to view them. please if anyone have an idea of what am doing wrong please help. this mysql, apache and perl installation on debian for koha 3.0. -- Noel Peter Kalonga The Catholic University of Malawi Montfort Campus P.O Box 5452 Limbe - Malawi 09 934 794 Other e-mail: nkalonga@cunima.net nkalonga@africa-online.net